On 28/11/2025 17:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
Dear Debian fellows,
You may be aware that there is user interest in adding ppc64el to the
supported architecture set for Debian LTS. I am actually answering one
of the mails sent to the debian-lts mailing list about that. I would
like to ask then: is it OK for you to add ppc64el as an LTS architecture
starting with bookworm?
I understand there are/were some concerns regarding the hosting of
related POWER machines. Does that still stand? Is there anything
resource-wise that could help here?
In principle, ppc64el will be supported in Debian forky [1], so the buildds will
stay. If that is the case, I think it should be little overhead to add it for
bookworm LTS. There will be some extra space requirement on the (security)
archive, but hopefully that's not a blocker.
Cheers,
Emilio
[1] unless something happens before the release, e.g. DSA concerns with the
hardware, RC bugs in core components...
